NGC 289: Swirl in the Southern Sky
About 70 million light-years distant, gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 289 islarger than ourown Milky Way.Seen nearly face-on, its bright core and colorful central disk give wayto remarkably faint, bluish spiral arms.The extensive armssweep well over 100 thousand light-years from the galaxy’s center.At the lower right in this sharp,telescopic galaxy portraitthe main spiral arm seems toencounter a small, fuzzy ellipticalcompanion galaxy interacting with enormous NGC 289.
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